Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer Olympics

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Soviet Union at the Olympic Games

Flag of the Soviet Union
IOC code   URS
At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul
Competitors
Flag bearer Alexander Karelin
Medals
Rank: 1		 Gold
55		 Silver
31		 Bronze
46		 Total
132
Olympic history (summary)
Summer Games
1952 • 1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988
Winter Games
1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988
Other related appearances
Unified Team Unified Team (1992)

The Soviet Union (USSR) competed, for the last time before its dissolution, at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Athletes from 12 of the ex-Soviet republics would compete as the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics, and each nation would field independent teams in subsequent Games.

Contents

[edit] Medals

[edit] Image:Med_1.png Gold

[edit] Image:Med_2.png Silver

  • Radion Gataullin — Athletics, Men's Pole Vault
  • Igor Lapshin — Athletics, Men's Triple Jump
  • Romas Ubartas — Athletics, Men's Discus Throw
  • Yuri Sedykh — Athletics, Men's Hammer Throw
  • Laimutė Baikauskaitė — Athletics, Women's 1500 metres
  • Tatyana Ledovskaya — Athletics, Women's 400 m Hurdles
  • Nuramgomed Shanavazov — Boxing, Men's Light Heavyweight
  • Mikhail Slivinskiy — Canoeing, Men's C-1 500m
  • Viktor Denisov and Igor Nagayev — Canoeing, Men's K2 500 m Kayak Pairs
  • Viktor Denisov, Sergey Kirsanov, Aleksandr Motuzenko, and Igor Nagayev — Canoeing, Men's K4 1000 m Kayak Fours
  • Nikolay Kovsh — Cycling, Men's 1000 m Sprint (Scratch)
  • Andrey Alshan, Mikhail Burtsev, Sergey Koryazhkin, Sergey Mindirgasov, and Georgy Pogosov — Fencing, Men's Sabre Team
  • Valery Lyukin — Gymnastics, Men's All-Around Individual
  • Valery Lyukin — Gymnastics, Men's Parallel Bars
  • Vladimir Artyomov — Gymnastics, Men's Floor Exercises
  • Yelena Shushunova — Gymnastics, Women's Balance Beam
  • Svetlana Boginskaya — Gymnastics, Women's Floor Exercises
  • Vladimir Shestakov — Judo, Men's Middleweight
  • Veniamin But, Nikolai Komarov, Vasili Tikhanov, Aleksandr Dumchev, Pavel Gurkovsky, Viktor Diduk, Viktor Omelyanovich, Andrei Vasiliev, Aleksandr Lukyanov — Rowing, Men's Eight With Coxswain
  • Irina Kalimbet, Svetlana Maziy, Inna Frolova, Antonina Dumcheva — Women's Quadruple Sculls Without Coxswain
  • Tõnu Tõniste, Toomas Tõniste — Sailing, Men's 470 - Two Person Dinghy
  • Nino Salukvadze — Shooting, Women's 10m Air Pistol
  • Elena Dendeberova — Swimming, Women's 200m Individual Medley
  • Gennadi Prigoda, Yuri Bashkatov, Nikolai Evseev, Vladimir Tkashenko — Swimming, Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay
  • Yuri Panchenko, Andrei Kuznetsov, Viacheslav Zaitsev, Igor Runov, Vladimir Shkurikhin, Yevgeni Krasilnikov, Raimundas Vilde, Valeri Losev, Yuri Sapega, Aleksandr Sorokolet, Yaroslav Antonov and Yuri Cherednik — Volleyball, Men's team competition
  • Israel Militosyan — Weightlifting, Men's Lightweight
  • Nail Mukhamedyarov — Weightlifting, Men's Middle-heavyweight
  • Stepan Sarkisyan — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Featherweight
  • Adlan Varaev — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Welterweight
  • Yuri Khabelov — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Heavyweight
  • Daulet Turlykhanov — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Welterweight

[edit] Image:Med_3.png Bronze

  • Vladimir Echeev — Archery, Men's Individual Competition
  • Rudolf Povarnitsyn — Athletics, Men's High Jump
  • Grigory Yegorov — Athletics, Men's Pole Vault
  • Aleksandr Kovalenko — Athletics, Men's Triple Jump
  • Jüri Tamm — Athletics, Men's Hammer Throw
  • Olga Nazarova — Athletics, Women's 400 metres
  • Tatyana Samolenko-Dorovskikh — Athletics, Women's 1500 metres
  • Yelena Zhupiyeva-Vyazova — Athletics, Women's 10.000 metres
  • Lyudmila Kondratyeva, Galina Malchugina, Natalya Pomoshchnikova, and Marina Zhirova — Athletics, Women's 4x100 m Relay
  • Tamara Bykova — Athletics, Women's High Jump
  • Galina Chistyakova — Athletics, Women's Long Jump
  • Olesya Barel, Olga Buryakina, Irina Gerlits, Yelena Khudashova, Aleksandra Leonova, Irina Minkh, Galina Savitskaya, Irina Sumnikova, Vitalija Tuomaite, Olga Yakovleva, Olga Yevkova, and Natalya Zasulskaya — Basketball, Women's Team Competition
  • Timofey Skryabin — Boxing, Men's Flyweight
  • Aleksandr Miroshnichenko — Boxing, Men's Super Heavyweight
  • Marat Ganeyev — Cycling, Men's Points Race
  • Laima Zilporite — Cycling, Women's Individual Road Race
  • Aleksandr Romankov — Fencing, Men's Foil Individual
  • Andrey Shuvalov — Fencing, Men's Épée Individual
  • Pavel Kolobkov, Vladimir Resnitschenko, Andrey Shuvalov, Igor Tikhomirov, and Mikhail Tishko — Fencing, Men's Épée Team
  • Dmitry Bilozerchev — Gymnastics, Men's All-Around Individual
  • Svetlana Boginskaya — Gymnastics, Women's All-Around Individual
  • Yelena Shushunova — Gymnastics, Women's Asymmetrical Bars
  • Alexandra Timoshenko — Gymnastics, Women's Rhythmic All-Around
  • Natalya Mitryuk, Larisa Karlova, Zinaida Turchina, Marina Bazanova, Natalia Morskova, Tatyana Gorb, Elena Nemashkalo, Tatyana Diandigava, Natalya Anisimova, Natalya Lapitskaya, Svetlana Mankova, Yevgeniya Tovstogan, Olga Semenova, Natalya Rusnachenko, Elina Guseva — Handball, Women's Team
  • Grigori Verichev — Judo, Men's Heavyweight
  • Amiran Totikashvili — Judo, Men's -60kg
  • Georgi Tenadze — Judo, Men's Lightweight
  • Bashir Varaev — Judo, Men's Half-middleweight
  • Vakhtang Yagorashvili — Modern Pentathlon, Men's Individual Competition
  • Aleksandr Marchenko, Vasili Yakusha — Rowing, Men's Double Sculls
  • Larisa Moskalenko, Irina Shunikovskaya — Sailing, Women's 470 - Two Person Dinghy
  • Marina Dobrancheva — Shooting, Women's 10m Air Pistol
  • Anna Malukhina — Shooting, Women's 10m Air Pistol
  • Igor Basinski — Shooting, Men's 50m Pistol
  • Valentina Cherkasova — Shooting, Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions
  • Kirill Ivanov — Shooting, Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions
  • Gennadi Avramenko — Shooting, Men's 50m Running Target
  • Igor Polyansky — Swimming, Men's 100m Backstroke
  • Dmitri Volkov — Swimming, Men's 100m Breaststroke
  • Vadim Yaroshchuk — Swimming, Men's 200m Individual Medley
  • Igor Polyansky, Dmitri Volkov, Vadim Yaroshchuk, Gennadi Prigoda — Swimming, Men's 4x100m Medley Relay
  • Gennadi Prigoda — Swimming, Men's 50m Freestyle
  • Evgeni Sharonov, Nurlan Mendygaliev, Evgeni Grishin, Aleksandr Kolotov, Sergei Naumov, Viktor Berendyuga, Sergei Kotenko, Dmitri Apanassenko, Georgi Mschvenieradze, Mikhail Ivanov, Sergei Markoch, Nikolai Smirnov, Mikhail Giorgadze — Water Polo, Men's Team
  • Sergei Karamchakov — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Light-flyweight
  • Vladimir Tohuzov — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Flyweight
  • Vladimir Popov — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Light-heavyweight

[edit] Results by event

[edit] Archery

After boycotting the 1984 archery competition, the Soviet team found itself unable to repeat its three medals of eight years earlier despite there being twice as many events. Vladimir Echeev won the nation's only archery medal, a bronze, though the Soviets did pick up 4 more top eight finishes.

Women's Individual Competition:

  • Lioudmila Arjannikova - final, 4th place
  • T. Mountian - final, 8th place
  • N. Boutouzova - quarterfinal, 18th place

Men's Individual Competition:

  • Vladimir Echeev - final, bronze medal
  • K. Chkolny - 1/8 final, 20th place
  • Juri Leontiev - preliminary round, 29th place

Women's Team Competition:

  • Arjannikova, Mountian, and Boutouzova - final, 4th place

Men's Team Competition:

  • Echeev, Chkolny, and Leontiev - final, 5th place

[edit] Athletics

[edit] Men's Competition

Men's Marathon

  • Ravil Kachapov
  • Final — 2:13.49 (→ 10th place)

Men's Long Jump

  • Qualification — 7.89m
  • Final — 7.89m (→ 8th place)
  • Qualification — DNF (→ did not advance)
  • Vladimir Otchkan
  • Qualification — DNS (→ did not advance)

Men's Discus Throw

  • Qualification – 65.58m
  • Final – 67.48m (→ Image:Med_2.png Silver Medal)
  • Qualification – 62.08m
  • Final – 66.42m (→ 4th place)
  • Qualification – 60.88m (→ did not advance)

Men's Shot Put

  • Qualification — 20.48m
  • Final — 20.36m (→ 8th place)

Men's Hammer Throw

  • Qualification — 81.24m
  • Final — 84.80m (→ Image:Med_1.png Gold Medal)
  • Qualification — 78.48m
  • Final — 83.76m (→ Image:Med_2.png Silver Medal)
  • Qualification — 69.68m
  • Final — 81.16m (→ Image:Med_3.png Bronze Medal)

Men's Javelin Throw

  • Qualification — 79.26m
  • Final — 82.32m (→ 5th place)
  • Qualification — 80.26m
  • Final — 79.12m (→ 7th place)

Men's Decathlon

  • Pavel Tarnovetsky — 8167 points (→ 10th place)
  1. 100 metres — 11.23s
  2. Long Jump — 7.28m
  3. Shot Put — 15.25m
  4. High Jump — 1.97m
  5. 400 metres — 48.60s
  6. 110m Hurdles — 14.76s
  7. Discus Throw — 48.02m
  8. Pole Vault — 5.20m
  9. Javelin Throw — 59.48m
  10. 1.500 metres — 4:52.24s

Men's 50km Walk

  • Final — 3:38:29 (→ Image:Med_1.png Gold Medal)
  • Alexandre Potachev
  • Final — 3:41:00 (→ 4th place)
  • Vitaly Popovitch
  • Final — 3:59:23 (→ 26th place)

[edit] Women's Competition

Women's 4x400m Relay

  • Heat — 3:27.14
  • Final — 3:15.18 (→ Gold Gold Medal)

Women's Marathon

  • Final — 2:27.05 (→ 4th place)
  • Final — 2:30.25 (→ 9th place)
  • Final — 2:33.19 (→ 16th place)

Women's Discus Throw

  • Qualification – 63.26m
  • Final – 68.94m (→ 5th place)
  • Qualification – 64.32m
  • Final – 64.08m (→ 10th place)
  • Qualification – 62.54m
  • Final – NM (→ no ranking)

Women's Javelin Throw

  • Irina Kostiuchenkova
  • Qualification – 63.24m
  • Final – 67.00m (→ 4th place)
  • Natalya Ermolovich
  • Qualification – 64.44m
  • Final – 64.84m (→ 6th place)

Women's Shot Put

  • Qualification – 19.78m
  • Final – 22.24m (→ Image:Med_1.png Gold Medal)
  • Natalya Akhremenko
  • Qualification – 19.40m
  • Final – 20.13m (→ 7th place)
  • Qualification – 19.06m (→ did not advance)

Women's Heptathlon

  • Natalya Choubenkova
  • Final Result — 6540 points (→ 4th place)
  • Remiguiia Sablovskaite
  • Final Result — 6456 points (→ 5th place)
  • Final Result — 6232 points (→ 10th place)

[edit] Basketball

[edit] Men's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group A)
  • Lost to Yugoslavia (79-92)
  • Defeated Australia (91-69)
  • Defeated Puerto Rico (93-81)
  • Defeated South Korea (110-73)
  • Defeated Central African Republic (87-78)
  • Quarterfinals
  • Defeated Brazil (110-105)
  • Semifinals
  • Defeated United States (82-76)
  • Final
  • Defeated Yugoslavia (76-63) → Image:Med_1.pngGold Medal
  • Team Roster
  • Head Coach: Alexandre Gomelskiy

[edit] Boxing

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48kg)

  • Alexander Makhmutov
  • First Round — Bye
  • Second Round — Defeated Carlos Eluaiza (Argentina), 5:0
  • Third Round — Defeated Jesus Beltre (Dominican Republic), 4:1
  • Quarterfinals — Lost to Ivailo Marinov (Bulgaria), 0:5

[edit] Cycling

Women's Individual Road Race

  • Laima Zilporite — 2:00:52 (→ Image:Med_3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Valentina Yevpak — 2:00:52 (→ 5th place)
  • Alla Yakovleva — 2:00:52 (→ 34th place)

[edit] Hockey

[edit] Men's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group B)
  • Soviet Union – India 1-0
  • Soviet Union – South Korea 3-1
  • Soviet Union – Canada 0-0
  • Soviet Union – Great Britain 1-3
  • Soviet Union – West Germany 0-6
  • Classification Matches
  • 5th-8th place: Soviet Union – Pakistan 0-1
  • 7th-8th place: Soviet Union – Argentina 4-1 (→ 7th place)
  • Team Roster
  • Head Coach: Leonid Pavlovsky

[edit] Swimming

Men's 50 m Freestyle

  • Vladimir Tkachenko
    1. Heat – 22.81
    2. Final – 22.88 (→ 6th place)

Men's 100 m Freestyle

  • Yuri Bachkatov
    1. Heat – 50.08
    2. Final – 50.08 (→ 5th place)

Men's 200 m Freestyle

  • Alexei Kouznetsov
    1. Heat – 1:50.84
    2. B-Final – 1:51.03 (→ 12th place)
  • Yuri Bachkatov
    1. Heat – 1:52.04 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Men's 400 m Freestyle

  • Alexandre Bazanov
    1. Heat – 3:58.74 (→ did not advance, 27th place)

Men's 1500 m Freestyle

Men's 100 m Backstroke

  • Serguei Zabolotnov
    1. Heat – 56.13
    2. Final – 55.37 (→ 4th place)

Men's 200 m Backstroke

  • Serguei Zabolotnov
    1. Heat – 2:01.27
    2. Final – 2:00.52 (→ 4th place)

Men's 100 m Breaststroke

  • Dmitry Volkov
    1. Heat – 1:02.49
    2. Final – 1:02.20 (→ Bronze Bronze Medal)
  • Alexei Matveev
    1. Heat – 1:03.25
    2. B-Final – 1:03.01 (→ 9th place)

Men's 200 m Breaststroke

  • Valeri Lozik
    1. Heat – 2:16.31
    2. Final – 2:16.16 (→ 5th place)
  • Vadim Alexeev
    1. Heat – 2:17.15
    2. B-Final – 2:16.70 (→ 6th place)

Men's 100 m Butterfly

  • Konstantine Petrov
    1. Heat – 55.84 (→ did not advance, 23rd place)

Men's 200 m Butterfly

Men's 200 m Individual Medley

  • Mikhail Zoubkov
    1. Heat – 2:03.79
    2. Final – 2:02.92 (→ 4th place)

Men's 400 m Individual Medley

  • Mikhail Zoubkov
    1. Heat – 4:25.30
    2. B-Final – 4:25.44 (→ 13th place)

Men's 4x100 m Freestyle Relay

  • Raimundas Mažuolis, Alexei Borislavski, Nikolai Evseev, and Vladimir Tkachenko
    1. Heat – 3:19.89
  • Gennadiy Prigoda, Yuri Bachkatov, Nikolai Evseev, and Vladimir Tkachenko
    1. Final – 3:18.33 (→ Silver Silver Medal)

Men's 4x200 m Freestyle Relay

  • Serguei Kouriaev, Alexandre Bazanov, Nikolai Evseev, and Aleksei Kouznetsov
    1. Heat – DSQ (→ did not advance, no ranking)

Men's 4x100 m Medley Relay


Women's 50 m Freestyle

  • Inna Abramova
    1. Heat – 26.27
    2. B-Final – 26.48 (→ 14th place)

Women's 100 m Freestyle

  • Natalia Trefilova
    1. Heat – 56.66
    2. B-Final – 56.48 (→ 9th place)

Women's 200 m Freestyle

  • Natalia Trefilova
    1. Heat – 2:00.54
    2. Final – 1:59.24 (→ 5th place)

Women's 400 m Freestyle

  • Natalia Trefilova
    1. Heat – 4:12.20
    2. Final – 4:13.92 (→ 8th place)

Women's 800 m Freestyle

  • Natalia Trefilova
    1. Heat – 8:43.19 (→ did not advance, 15th place)

Women's 100 m Breaststroke

  • Elena Volkova
    1. Heat – 1:09.86
    2. Final – 1:09.24 (→ 5th place)
  • Svetlana Kouzmina
    1. Heat – 1:10.83
    2. B-Final – 1:10.42 (→ 9th place)

Women's 200 m Breaststroke

  • Yulia Bogatcheva
    1. Heat – 2:28.94
    2. Final – 2:28.54 (→ 5th place)
  • Svetlana Kouzmina
    1. Heat – 2:30.93
    2. B-Final – 2:30.03 (→ 10th place)

Women's 100 m Butterfly

  • Svetlana Koptchikova
    1. Heat – 1:01.65
    2. B-Final – 1:01.48 (→ 9th place)

Women's 200 m Butterfly

  • Svetlana Koptchikova
    1. Heat – 2:15.26
    2. B-Final – 2:14.43 (→ 12th place)

Women's 200 m Individual Medley

  • Yulia Bogatcheva
    1. Heat – 2:19.07
    2. B-Final – 2:19.91 (→ 15th place)

Women's 400 m Individual Medley

Women's 4x100 m Freestyle Relay

[edit] Tennis

Men's Singles Competition

Women's Singles Competition


[edit] Volleyball

[edit] Men's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group A)
  • Defeated Bulgaria (3-0)
  • Defeated Sweden (3-0)
  • Defeated South Korea (3-0)
  • Defeated Italy (3-1)
  • Lost to Brazil (2-3)
  • Semi Finals
  • Defeated Argetina (3-0)
  • Final
  • Lost to the United States (1-3) → Image:Med_2.png Silver Medal
  • Team Roster
  • Yuri Panchenko
  • Andrey Kuzentsov
  • Vyatcheslav Zaytsev
  • Igor Runov
  • Vladimir Chkourikhine
  • Yevgueny Krasilnikov
  • Raimond Vilde
  • Valery Lossev
  • Yuri Sapega
  • Yuri Sorokolet
  • Yaroslav Antonov
  • Yuri Tcherednik
  • Head Coach: Guennady Parchine

[edit] Women's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group A)
  • Lost to Japan (2-3)
  • Defeated South Korea (3-2)
  • Defeated East Germany (3-0)
  • Semi Finals
  • Defeated PR China (3-0)
  • Final
  • Defeated Peru (3-2) → Image:Med_1.png Gold Medal
  • Team Roster
  • Valentina Ogienko
  • Yelena Volkova
  • Irina Smirnova-Ilchenko
  • Tatyana Sidorenko
  • Irina Parkhomchuk-Kirillova
  • Olga Shkournova
  • Marina Nikulina
  • Elena Ovtchnikova
  • Olga Krivocheeva
  • Svetlana Korytova
  • Marina Koumych
  • Tatyana Krainova

[edit] Water Polo

[edit] Men's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group A)
  • Drew with Italy (9-9)
  • Defeated Australia (11-4)
  • Defeated France (14-8)
  • Defeated South Korea (17-4)
  • Lost to West Germany (8-9)
  • Semi Finals
  • Lost to United States (7-8)
  • Bronze Medal Match
  • Defeated West Germany (14-13) → Image:Med_3.png Bronze Medal
  • Team Roster
  • Evgueni Charonov
  • Nourlan Mendygaliev
  • Evgeni Grichine
  • Alexandre Kolotov
  • Sergei Naoumov
  • Victor Berendiouga
  • Serguei Kotenko
  • Dmitri Apanasenko
  • Georgui Mchvenieradze
  • Mikhail Ivanov
  • Serguei Markotch
  • Nikolai Smirnov
  • Mikhail Giorgadze
  • Head Coach: Boris Popov

[edit] Wrestling

Alexander Karelin — Wrestling, Heavyweight